John Wilson Foster papers

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

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Seamus Heaney, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm in County Derry in Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in the city of Derry, From 1957 he lived in Belfast, moving in 1972 to the Irish Republic, where he now lives. His poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a gro...

Hobsbaum, Philip

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Philip Hobsbaum, poet, critic, and teacher, was born in London, June 29, 1932. From the description of Philip Hobsbaum collection, 1962-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 181099706 Philip Hobsbaum was born in London, England. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge in 1955 and 1961 respectively, and a Ph.D. from Sheffield in 1968. He worked as a part-time lecturer and teacher from 1955 to 1959. He was a lecturer in English in Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1962 to 1966 an...

Longley, Edna.

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Rodgers, W. R. (William Robert), 1909-1969

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Dawe, Gerald, 1952-2024

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Gerald Dawe was born on April 22, 1952 in Belfast, Northern Ireland to Norma Fitzgerald Bradshaw and Gordon Dawe. He attended Orangefield High School and lived in London prior to earning a B.A. from the New University of Ulster in 1974. For a short time, Dawe worked at Belfast Central Library. He was awarded a Major State Award for Postgraduate Research. He earned his M.A. in English at the University of Galway between 1974 and 1978. Dawe married Dorothea Melvin in 1979, and they had two ch...

Mahon, Derek, 1941-....

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Derek Mahon (1941- ), poet, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. From the description of Derek Mahon papers, circa 1948-2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122503847 Irish poet Derek Mahon met Louis Asekoff in the early 1960s while they were students at Trinity College in Dublin. Louis Asekoff (1939- ), poet and educator, currently coordinates the M.F.A. Program in Poetry at Brooklyn College. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including THE NEW YORKER, POETRY, TIKKUN,...

Muldoon, Paul

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Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He attended Queen's University in Belfast where he studied English literature under Seamus Heaney. In 1973, the year he graduated from Queen's, Faber and Faber published his first collection of poems. From 1973 to 1986 he worked as a radio and television producer for BBC Northern Ireland. He moved to the United States in 1987 and has held various university teaching posts. He currently lives in New Jersey and is the Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor...

Kavanagh, Patrick, 1904-1967

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Foster, John Wilson

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John Wilson Foster, professor and critic of Northern Irish literature, was born in Belfast in 1944. Foster received his Ph. D. from the University of Oregon, and in 1974 joined the faculty at the University of British Columbia. His publications include FORCES AND THEMES IN ULSTER FICTION (1974), FICTIONS OF THE IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL: A CHANGELING ART (1987), COLONIAL CONSEQUENCES: ESSAYS IN IRISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE (1991), and THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SEAMUS HEANEY (1996). He also co-edited THE P...

Carson, Ciarán (1948- ).

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Ciaran Gerard Carson was born in Belfast on 9 October 1948. He attended St. Mary's Christian Brothers' School in Belfast before going on to Queens University where he graduated with honors in July 197 1. In 1974-1975 he taught school in Belfast; before joining the Northern Ireland Arts Council as Traditional Arts Officer. In 1976, Carson received the Eric Gregory Award for his first collection of poems, The New Estate and Other Poems. Three years later he published the chapbook The Lost Explore ...

Montague, John Stanley

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Montague was a prominent member of the Carthage mob that would murder Joseph and Hyrum Smith in 1844, according to Sheriff Backenstos; see History of the Church VII: 144. From the description of John Montague (Carthage mob member) promissory note, 1838. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 368052121 This fonds relates to The Dolmen Miscellany Of Irish Writing, originally to be entitled The Tower, which was proposed after a poetry reading in February 1961. The Irish Academy of Lett...

Kiely, Benedict

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Benedict Kiely (1919- ), author, born in County Tyrone, Ireland. From the description of Benedict Kiely collection, 1985-1991. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863268 ...

Longley, Michael, 1939-....

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Michael Longley was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on July 27, 1939. He attended Malone Primary School and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, before going on to Trinity College, Dublin, where he read Classics. After graduating with honors in 1963, he held a variety of teaching positions in Blackrock, Dublin, London, and Belfast. It was while teaching in Belfast that Longley first attended Philip Hobsbaum's informal gatherings of writers known simply as "the group." There he and other ...

Hewitt, John Harold, 1907-1987

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Simmons, James, 1933-2001

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James Simmons was born in 1933 in Derry, Northern Ireland. He attended the University of Leeds as a mature student in the late 1950's where he met lifelong friends Tony Harrison and Wole Soyinka. Simmons went on to teach English at Ahamadu Bello University in Nigeria, Friends School, Lisburn, and the New University of Ulster, Coleraine, and in 1989 was named Writer in Residence at Queens University of Belfast. In 1968, Simmons founded and edited The Honest Ulsterman, a prominent literary magazin...

McGuckian, Medbh, 1950-....

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Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University, Belfast, in 1972 and earned her Masters in Arts from the same institution two years later. McGuckian won the National Poetry Competition prize in 1979 for "The Flitting," and she published her first two collections of poetry, Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems and Portrait of Joanna, in 1980. Among her most recent collections are Had I a Thousand Lives, The Book of the Angel...

Paulin, Tom

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Tom (Thomas Neilson) Paulin, the poet, critic, and playwright, was born in Leeds on 25 January 1949, brought up in Belfast, and educated at Hull University and Lincoln College, Oxford. He lectured in English at the University of Nottingham from 1972 until 1989, and was Reader in Poetry there from 1989 until 1994, when he moved to become G.M. Young Lecturer in English at Hertford College, Oxford. For fuller details of his life and achievements see Who's who . From the guide to the Lit...

Moore, Brian, 1921-1999

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